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“What is this? O’Sullivan said I could keep working. You heard him yourself the other day.”
“O’Sullivan has changed his mind.” He gives me a smile, as cold as any warning, before glancing at Adrik. “Go,” he orders in Russian. “Ada will not be requiring your services any longer. Take all the men left behind and head back to London. Once I am finished, I will follow.”
My blood turns to ice.No part of that order included me.
His gaze drifts back my way. “Where are your students today?”
“I closed the studio for a few days. You didn’t leave me a choice. You and your men were endangering my students’ lives.”
“That is a shame.”
Ice turns to fire at the thought of him hurting them. “Is this my gift, Kirill? A new invasive security camera to spy on underage girls?”
His fake smile drops at my accusation. “No, Ada.Thisis your gift.”
I watch in horror as his finger hits the keyboard again and the screen turns a bright blinding white before the feed turns to static. Somewhere beyond my ten-million-pound gated, hillside prison, there’s a loudboom, and the kitchen windows rattle politely.
No.
“Why?” I whisper.
“I am punishing you.”
Punishing me for what?
But I have a hunch when he grabs the back of my head and slams it down on the counter, grinding the side of my face into the black granite so forcefully, I cry out in pain. “I wanted to kill you, Ada, for what you have done, but O’Sullivan wanted you more.”
Oh God, he knows. He knows about me and Frankie.
“Get off me!”
“From now on you will live in his basement, and this time he will not be ordering me to break your legs. He will be breaking other parts of you himself. That is your other gift,suka. A broken, bleeding pussy instead of a wooden box.” I try to twist out of his grip but he’s too strong. “After what he did to your brother for seven days, it is not a gift I think you will enjoy.”
Flicking my heel up, I catch him between the legs, and he snarls out a curse in Russian before crushing my head even harder into the counter. “It seems Lastra’s cock is less selective than mine, Ada,” he hisses. “I heard he fucked you all night long.”
Keep the spotlight on you. Whatever you do, keep the spotlight on you.
“I was asleep,” I gasp out. “I’ve already told you a million times that I haven’t seen him.”
He laughs as he leans over me, grinding his elbow into the small of my back and making me cry out again. “You always were a bad liar. You even smell of him. But it does not matter anymore.” Releasing me, he shoves me away to deliver his final blow. “Lastra will be dead before midnight. He might even be dead already.”
“I don’t believe you,” I yelp, skidding into the wall, but there’s so much about his strut and his confidence that’s taking a lit match to my paper-thin hope.
“He has a casino now, but I am guessing he already told you that.”
My stomach twists in agony.He knows. He knows. But how?
“He and Razor had the balls to try and start a business in London, thinking we wouldn’t find out.”
“It’s not your city though, is it?” I say, staggering around to the opposite side of the kitchen island, putting four hundred pounds of granite between us. “It was neveryourcity, Kirill. It was always O’Sullivan’s. You only paid rent and did your master’s bidding.”
His eyes narrow as he starts to circle the island, too. “You know nothing, Ada.”
“I know that you stalked me as a child. I know that’s the reason my mother and I had to keep moving. He manipulated you. He manipulated your obsession with me to get what he wanted… The only thing O’Sullivan ever wanted…power. Over cities. Over people—”
“You are only making things worse for yourself,meelaya,” he tuts, matching me limp for step in a dangerous cat and mouse game that will only end in violence.
“Tell me when you first saw me,” I demand.Tell me when did all this hell begin.
